Certainly, the Lane Bryant story, which the New York Postbroke this morning, is drawing eyeballs. That's what happens when you're dealing with not one, but two, lingerie ads. The second one? A Victoria's Secret spot that Lane Bryant's holding up as an example of outsize discrimination. See, Lane Bryant says it also had difficulty placing its ad on American Idol, even though that show's been running a Victoria's Secret commercial this month. That bra-haha's basically settled, with the Lane Bryant ad to air in all its glory during next Wednesday's AI.

So, what do we have here? A conspiracy? And whose conspiracy?

For starters, neither DWTS nor AI, Simon Cowell's occasional comments aside, seem biased against or unwelcoming of contestants who can't squeeze into Angelina Jolie's jeans. (See: Jordin Sparks, Ruben Studdard, Jennifer Hudson and the "jiggly parts"-jiggling Niecy Nash.) And as far as whether skinny girls can get away with showing more skin, a Fox source says Victoria's Secret, for one, was asked to make changes to its ad before it got the go-ahead to air during AI.

On the flip side, Monique van den Berg, founder of the blog Big Fat Deal, says "there are huge problems with the media's portrayal of plus-size women." Still, she's not ready to call it a conspiracy. She can even see where a network would balk at the Lane Bryant ad.

"There's no question the woman…has more cleavage showing than Miranda Kerr in the [Victoria's Secret] ad mentioned, and it certainly does catch my attention more," van den Berg said in an email. "But that being said, it's a world where Christina Hendricks is considered a 'big girl,' so anything is possible."